L98.6
Other infiltrative disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 11 never code together
L00-L99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8)I89.8
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)M30-M36
- viral warts (B07.-)B07.-
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes
No further instructional notes apply.
Index entries leading here 2
Alongside this code 10 same parent — L98
L98.0 Pyogenic granuloma L98.1 Factitial dermatitis L98.2 Febrile neutrophilic dermatosis [Sweet] L98.3 Eosinophilic cellulitis [Wells] L98.4 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin, not elsewhere classified category L98.A Non-pressure chronic ulcer of upper limb, NEC category L98.5 Mucinosis of the skin L98.7 Excessive and redundant skin and subcutaneous tissue L98.8 Oth disrd of the skin and subcutaneous tissue L98.9 Disorder of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, unspecified
Medications 4
41 Bipolar and Related Disorders drugs 10 Feeding and Eating Disorders drugs 65 Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders drugs 19 Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
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